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David Tarkington
Orange Park, FL
Pastor of First Baptist Church of Orange Park. Expand (Church Planting) Team Champion for First Coast Churches.
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How God Used Numerous Churches (Ours Included) for His Glory in Jacksonville, Florida
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A number of years ago a friend serving as an interim pastor at a church in our city reached out to me to see if our church would be open to adopting this aging and struggling church. We met and... Continue reading
Posted Oct 6, 2022 at davidtarkington.com
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Starting Adult Groups in a Family-Equipping Church
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Our church's shift toward a family-equipping model of disciple-making has been challenging, but worth it. While we continue to have preschool, children's, and youth ministries (as well as other specific ministries for people) our focus has been to be less... Continue reading
Posted Jun 29, 2022 at davidtarkington.com
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When Parents/Guardians Are Equipped to Lead Their Children Biblically
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Years ago our church made a shift in how we approached age-graded ministry. It is not that what we were doing was bad or sinful, but our convictions revealed that a change was right. We began shifting from a family-based... Continue reading
Posted May 30, 2022 at davidtarkington.com
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Dave Paxton's List - "101 Things In Student Ministry (To Do & Not Do)"
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On Monday we gathered to remember the life of our dear brother and long-time minister of the gospel Dave Paxton. Dave had served over forty-years in student ministry in churches from Tennessee, Texas, and Florida. Over the years he impacted... Continue reading
Posted May 11, 2022 at davidtarkington.com
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Talking Honestly & Biblically with Children About Death
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When death impacts our families the forced reality of explaining the feelings, emotions, and reality of death with children moves to the forefront for many. Those who do not have decades of life experience have many questions and often they... Continue reading
Posted May 5, 2022 at davidtarkington.com
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Giving to Your Church or Other Non-Profit Through a QCD
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We have many in our church family who are retired or at an age where retirement is on the horizon. The faithful, generous givers in our church family continue to seek wise ways to continue their contributions to our church... Continue reading
Posted Feb 17, 2022 at davidtarkington.com
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"When the New Wears Off" - A Reality of Church Planting
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I have the great privilege of working with church planters in our city and throughout our state. I call these men front-line servants as many have stepped out in faith to launch and lead a local church that only previously... Continue reading
Posted Sep 14, 2021 at davidtarkington.com
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Facing the Reality That Your Church Has Changed
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"Your church is perfectly positioned and staffed to reach a people who no longer exist." I first heard a Christian leader make that statement about fifteen years ago. His point was that often churches of a certain age find themselves... Continue reading
Posted Aug 17, 2021 at davidtarkington.com
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High School Graduate Recognition in a Family Equipping Church
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It is spring in an almost post-pandemic year and high school graduation in our county is tomorrow. We have received graduation notifications in the mail, invitations to family-hosted celebrations, and some neighbors have the now common-place signs in their yards... Continue reading
Posted May 27, 2021 at davidtarkington.com
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"Gospel-Driven Ministry" by Jared C. Wilson - Book Review
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There are a few authors who are on my "buy the book as soon as it is available" list. Jared C. Wilson is one such author. His books focusing on the gospel and specifically on church and ministry leadership are... Continue reading
Posted Mar 21, 2021 at davidtarkington.com
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Teenagers Need More Than the Coolest Youth Group In Town
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A few weeks ago I was asked to lead one of our local junior high school's Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) huddle. What I love about these young people is that once they determined that being an athlete on a... Continue reading
Posted Mar 13, 2021 at davidtarkington.com
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What I Wish I Knew Earlier About Planting Churches & Sending Church Planters
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Church planting is considered trendy by some. Church planting is a term that has become used greatly in the past decade or so, but in truth is not new. In fact, it is how the gospel has spread throughout the... Continue reading
Posted Nov 24, 2020 at davidtarkington.com
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The Pastor's Kid Responds to "The Pastor's Kid" and Other Stuff (Guest Post by Ashley O'Brien)
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Ashley (Tarkington) O'Brien has read the book The Pastor's Kid:What It's Like and How to Help by Barnabas Piper and as a pastor's kid (my kid) she has written this review of, or rather a response to, his book. Yet,... Continue reading
Posted Sep 21, 2020 at davidtarkington.com
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"The Gospel According to Satan" by Jared C. Wilson - Book Review
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I'm slowly working through the stack of books in my home office that I intended to read during the COVID-19 quarantine. Let's just say that I struggle to find the time to read as much as I would like, even... Continue reading
Posted May 11, 2020 at davidtarkington.com
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"Reset" by David Murray - Book Review
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Burnout. It is a concept that most men, regardless of vocation, understand. We have all heard the warnings. We have heard, and even likely repeated some of the statements related to pacing oneself better for health living. We know that... Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2020 at davidtarkington.com
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"The Loneliness Solution" by Jack Eason - Book Review
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"Loneliness is killing us, and we don't even realize it." (p. 6) This opening line in chapter one of Jack Eason's forthcoming book The Loneliness Solution not only draws in the reader but makes a bold declaration. Loneliness is a... Continue reading
Posted Mar 23, 2020 at davidtarkington.com
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Why We Continue to Plant Churches & Partner with Church Planters
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I am not a church planter. Most of you probably know that. I pastor what has been called by various entities an "established church," a "legacy church," an "historic church," and other things. Basically, I pastor an older church. Our... Continue reading
Posted Jan 31, 2020 at davidtarkington.com
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7 Things the Church Planter You're Supporting Wants to Tell You
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The expansion of churches and gospel ministries is an outgrowth of the Great Commission and in our nation today (and elsewhere) planting new churches in areas of increased population density where few, if any, gospel churches exist seems to be... Continue reading
Posted Dec 18, 2019 at davidtarkington.com
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How Did Your Church Die? Two Ways - Gradually, Then Suddenly.
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In 1926 Ernest Hemingway published his novel The Sun Also Rises. As with many Hemingway books, this one became a best-seller and remains in print today. This character Mike Campbell was asked about his money troubles and responded with this... Continue reading
Posted Dec 4, 2019 at davidtarkington.com
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When Jesus Said "No, You Cannot Come With Me."
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This morning I met with our students at the local junior high to lead our weekly Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) meeting. We have a great group of seventh and eighth graders. Some are athletes, others are not. It's an... Continue reading
Posted Nov 21, 2019 at davidtarkington.com
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Hey Christian - Your Faith Is Showing (Expressing the Fruit of the Spirit Online)
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Social media and a networked online presence for people is here to stay. This new instant media world has impacted much. Conversations are often conducted with misspelled and abbreviated words through texts, political statements and movements are no longer relegated... Continue reading
Posted Nov 20, 2019 at davidtarkington.com
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Blaming the Monster We Created - Consumer Christianity in America
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Pastors often find themselves meeting together at conferences, denominational events, or community gatherings. Once the typical small talk is over, and if they actually like and trust each other, many will begin to express what they feel regarding the seeming... Continue reading
Posted Oct 1, 2019 at davidtarkington.com
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"What Is A Girl Worth?" by Rachael Denhollander - Book Review
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In 2016 after the IndyStar ran an exposé on USA Gymnastics (USAG) and how the organization turned a blind eye to sexual abuse perpetrated by coaches for years, a young woman in Louisville, Kentucky responded. She sent an email to... Continue reading
Posted Aug 24, 2019 at davidtarkington.com
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On Death and Why We Hate Using That Word
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The longer one serves in pastoral ministry, the more funerals one attends. Depending on the average age of one's church, the number of funerals vary. Our church is almost one hundred years old and our membership is fully intergenerational. Therefore,... Continue reading
Posted Jul 17, 2019 at davidtarkington.com
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Why "Family-Equipping Discipleship" Is Needed Now More Than Ever (And Is Better Than What We Grew Up With)
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Our church has been making the long shift from a family-based or programmatic ministry model to a family-equipping model over the past few years. It is difficult to understand why for man, but here is another reason... From Reggie Joiner... Continue reading
Posted Jun 1, 2019 at davidtarkington.com
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